subject: Get Your Rank Raise and Avoid The Common SEO Mistake [print this page] Get Your Rank Raise and Avoid The Common SEO Mistake
Your site needs to be totally SEO friendly, and search engine bots cannot read Flash - only text. There are many different ways to drive traffic to your website. The great division within traffic consists of paid traffic and free traffic. Despite all the various methods to build traffic, search engine traffic still holds the promise of the big dream.
By optimizing your site for the major search engines, you're opening the doors for getting floods of free traffic, if you do it right. Everyone has to start at the same place with SEO, at the beginning, so we'll share some tips on this matter with you that you can use as a springboard for further learning.
One thing you need to do, and not everyone thinks about it, is to be sure your site is ready to receive a ton of visitors. In other words, even before you start getting visitors from the search engines make sure your site is completed. It is never adviseable to have an incomplete website when you start getting visitors. What will happen is that traffic will be wasted because it will turn people off and they will never return. What will happen is it will create a bad impression and people will just leave because it looks bad.
Another trick to use sparingly is to put some keywords in bolding or you into italics, but avoid doing this on every page, etc. This really is a pretty valuable little tip for on-page SEO. It's impossible to say how much, but the search engine algorithms will add some degree of weight to your keywords when you do that. Overdoing anything with SEO will always be viewed as spamming of some kind, so never overdo these things. So just a few times and that will help you out. And be sure to use h1 and h2 tags along with your primary and secondary keywords and phrases. They'll become more valuable and relevant for the search engines in terms of optimization. Always keep in mind that each page should be optimized for a primary keyword plus some secondaries.
There are not many on-page factors that really count, but using your keywords properly throughout your website/blog is perhaps one of the most important. What this will do is help your site to rank higher in the search engines, and it will do it faster because the search engines will like the structure. So, it's easy - just include the appropriate page keywords in your anchor texts for links, and then for any images in the ALT tag, and if possible (beforehand) register a domain name with the overall topical main keyword/phrase. You need to allow the search engines to know exactly how to categorize your website, and all of that will help in that regard. High search engine rankings can bring you all the traffic you need, but you have to be willing to do the proper SEO to get that. It's critically important to choose the best and right keywords, and do make sure you don't use Flash anywhere. Also, doing things the right way will establish trust from others in you, as well.
